Our Patients
Not all illnesses or injuries that require urgent attention are life threatening. That’s why we provide a range of urgent healthcare services to make sure the right help is available when you need it.
What We Do
We’re proud to have been providing NHS services for over 25 years. Across the whole of the UK, approximately 50% of ambulance call outs are unnecessary, and over nine million people are sent home from A&E having only needed advice. Our services are designed to relieve some of the pressure on the emergency care sector by assessing and helping patients and giving them the appropriate care they need.
We have a team of approximately 1,000 people working hard around the clock, providing a range of urgent care across Kent, Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, and Norfolk and Waveney.
We are a social enterprise and therefore you can be assured that our focus is on quality of care, not on profit
Your experience using integrated urgent care (IUC) services is displayed in the graphic below. Your journey through the urgent care service should always start by calling NHS 111 to have your needs assessed. However, depending on the nature of your condition, you might be diverted out of the urgent care system to other parts of the health service that are not provided by IC24, such as hospital care.

Our Services
NHS 111
We’re available on the phone for any urgent medical problems you’re unsure of.
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We’re here to further assess your symptoms to resolve your concern through the phone.
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If you need to see a clinician in person then we’re here for you.
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Our clinicians visit our most vulnerable patients in the comfort of their own home.
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We value the opinions of our patients and are always looking for members of the community to join our online community forum and support the improvement of our services.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is urgent care?
An urgent care need is an illness or injury that requires urgent attention, but isn’t a life threatening situation. The ‘front door’ to urgent care services is calling NHS 111. We’ll assess your needs and get to you the best appropriate care.
What do you mean by integrated urgent care?
Integrated urgent care, or IUC, is about getting you the right advice, at the right time, in the right healthcare setting. IUC is about joining up all parts of the healthcare system to ensure that when you need help, you experience the most seamless journey possible. By connecting the system, we can help reduce pressure on ambulance services, and accident and emergency departments. We can do this by ensuring that patients’ needs are addressed as early on in the journey as possible, without the need for an ambulance to be called, or a long wait at A&E.
What happens when I call NHS 111?
When you call 111, you’ll speak to one of our health advisors who will ask you a series of questions about your symptoms. These will help us give you the right advice or direct you to the right person to help you. Your call might be transferred through to our Clinical Assessment Service so you can speak to an experienced clinician. If we can’t resolve your concerns over the telephone we might book you a face-to-face appointment or a home visit.
How can I book a home visit?
Once your symptoms have been assessed, if our team thinks you need to be visited in your own home then we will arrange that for you. Patients can’t directly book a visit with the home visiting service, it’s based on clinical need.
Will I definitely see or speak to a doctor?
Within our services we employ advanced nurse practitioners, paramedics, and urgent care practitioners. Using a range of clinicians within our services means that we can help you to be seen by the best clinician for your healthcare needs. In the past, the out-of-hours doctor's service has been solely focused on GPs delivering the service. However, in-hours and out-of-hours care has transformed to include other clinicians who are highly competent at delivering primary care. The national shortage of GPs is well-known, so the service is having to transform to make sure that we make the best use of the GPs that we have. GPs lead our service so there’s always senior clinical advice available to support our clinicians.
Are you part of the Shared Care Record initiative in Norfolk and Waveney?
Yes. This scheme is about sharing important health information with our clinicians and caregivers so that they can support your care effectively.
Your information will only be made available when needed at the point of care and will only be used by staff members with a legitimate basis to do so.
You can read more about the implementation of the Shared Care Record across the county on the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System website - https://improvinglivesnw.org.uk/our-work/healthier-communities/digital/shared-care-record/